Multnomah-Hood River County OR Archives Biographies.....Morgan, Edward Shelley November 6, 1867 - 
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     E. SHELLEY MORGAN.  The life record of E. Shelley Morgan is the story of 
earnest endeavor, marked by an orderly progression that has brought him from a 
lowly position to one of prominence in commercial circles of Portland. The 
greater part of his life has been devoted to the lithographing business and 
his activities in this connection have made him known throughout the Pacific 
northwest. He was born November 6, 1867, in Salem, Oregon, and his father, 
Edward F. Morgan, was a native of Wales. In 1843, when a youth of fourteen, 
Edward F. Morgan made the voyage to the new world and in 1851 came to Oregon. 
During the early days he conducted a general store in partnership with Thomas 
Scott and the firm was known as Morgan-Scott & Company. In Jacksonville, 
Oregon, Mr. Morgan married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Flint, whose father, Addison 
R. Flint, was a surveyor and came to the Pacific coast on a vessel which 
sailed around Cape Horn. In 1850 he surveyed a portion of San Francisco and 
then boarded a steamer bound for Coos bay, Oregon, from which point he made 
the trip to Roseburg in a wagon drawn by a team of mules. During the '60s Mr. 
Morgan was one of the proprietors of a Portland industry known as the Oregon 
Iron Works and his partner, Addison C. Gibbs, served as governor of the state 
during the Civil war. In 1867 Mr. Morgan established his home in Salem and 
afterward engaged in general merchandising in Roseburg, Oregon. Subsequently 
he went to Colorado and was identified with mining operations in that state 
until his death in 1881. In 1886 his widow returned to Portland and her demise 
occurred in 1924, when she was eighty-one years of age.

     E. Shelley Morgan received a public school education and his first money 
was earned in Denver, Colorado, while working as a messenger boy for the 
Western Union Telegraph Company. Afterward he was employed along various lines 
and while in Denver learned the florist's business, with which he was 
connected for a year. In 1886 he came to Portland and secured a position in 
the book store of the J. K. Gill Company, with which he spent a year. At the 
end of that time he started to work for the Schmidt Lithograph Company of San 
Francisco and was appointed manager of their business in the northwest. For 
twenty-seven years he represented the firm in that capacity and in 1914 became 
northwestern manager for the Simpson & Boeller Company, of Baltimore. This 
position he has since filled, rendering to the corporation the services of an 
expert, and has created a large business for the firm in this territory. He 
always has the interests of his customers at heart and many of them have been 
his patrons for three decades. Mr. Morgan has a highly specialized knowledge 
of advertising and commercial lithography, resulting from forty-seven years of 
practical experience and deep study, and is the pioneer in this line of 
business on the Pacific coast. He sells labels of various kinds and the 
company which he represents also designs and produces fine color printing by 
the modern offset process, turning out work which exemplifies the highest 
degree of skill in the lithographer's art.

     In 1891 Mr. Morgan married Miss Katherine Dearborn, a daughter of R. H. 
and Helen A. (Flint) Dearborn and a member of one of the pioneer families of 
Salem, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have two children. Helen M., the elder, is 
the wife of David Gowans, Jr., of Portland, and has become the mother of two 
children, David and Shelly Morgan Gowans. The son, Edward Shelley Morgan, Jr., 
is eighteen years of age and a student at the Oregon Agricultural College.

     For relaxation from business cares Mr. Morgan turns to agricultural 
pursuits and is the owner of a large apple ranch near Hood River, Oregon. He 
was one of the first farmers in the district to successfully produce this 
fruit and became a charter member of the Hood River Apple Growers Association. 
At one time he was identified with the Oregon National Guard and served for 
seven years in Company K of the First Regiment. He belongs to the Lang Syne 
Society, the Hood River Country Club and the Multnomah Anglers & Hunters Club. 
Mr. Morgan is also a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and casts his 
ballot for the candidates of the republican party. Throughout life he has been 
an earnest, systematic worker, discharging his duties to the best of his 
ability, and his success is well merited. By nature he is genial, sincere and 
sympathetic and holds a secure place in the esteem of all with whom he has 
been associated.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 696-697

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